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elwaclaret

I think those of you calling VK a busted flush really need to give their heads a wobble.

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I was quite pleased with that interview. What he said was very different than what he communicated. Very upset and annoyed that we did not win that football match… he did not see the come back as much to celebrate as a result. He knows himself this is now time to stop stroking egos to improve perfor...

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Seems like it’s the latest buzzword Not a word I have used, but I understand it. Burnley have always had favourite players and continuity across several seasons where fans got to knows players games and got a feel for the team. I’m the first to admit I could name teams from the seventies onward, ev...

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Unlike others I feel most of the loan players have a long term future at the club, but that it has been identified players may develop quicker by working with other coaches and different ideas to give these young lads a more rounded football education and chance to bulk up while playing at a good le...

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I just think the four year plan has been stuck to rigidly. Had we not taken the league by storm last season this would all be happening at a lower level. Benson’s fitness to complete a full game has clearly been an issue since he arrived. That he still lacks condition suggests his body just may not ...

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I suspect Connor has struggled this season after seeing the gang ‘all for one’ mentality of last season dismantled. Hopefully we will see it return to some degree in the coming weeks. I can see Roberts returning after a freshen up at Leeds, and it would not surprise me to see him back around the tea...

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At 90 minutes, last night, I lip read the ref say, “next goals the winner”. So although we didn’t get the points we won. That goal is the turning point for me of this hoodoo that City have over us. We’ll lick em next time. We said the same thing about Hamburg SV in 1960 and I don’t think they have ...

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Never really liked the Premier league...maybe under Coyle and the early Dyche seasons the novelty has well and truly worn off now the Championship plsses all over the Premier league. Must admit I sympathise. I prefer watching football matches to theatre on the pitch myself to be honest; but club an...

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The ultimate legacy of Jack Walker seems to have been a whole population devoid of any sense of reality. Their trajectory for many years has been similar to our former plummet down the leagues… only checked so far at India’s expense. With it looking increasingly likely that funding is about to dry u...

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Think we can start to see why Kompany said it would be a four year project, and that we got promotion a year early. A slight adaption perhaps to going up (and I thought we would have enough to beyond stay up this season) but the plan has remained much the same. I suspect that is why VK still has a s...

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How we could ever have gone from the Clash and Joy Division to the likes of this lot and Duran Duran in the space of a couple of years remains utterly baffling to me but each to their own of course. Bands like Blonde popularised the New York scene where gender blurring had gone hand in hand with pu...

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📰 Burnley are looking at left back Jayden Oosterwolde from Fenerbahche [@sachatavolieri] Tweet of above 27mins ago 🟣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Infos #BurnleyFC : 🇳🇱 Clarets that are still looking for a left back until the end of the window appreciates the profile of Jayden Oosterwolde from #Fenerbahçe. 🏃🏻 Able to pla...

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[/quote] Whoever owns the land wants £4 million for it or did as a local junior football club (Rossendale Valley) enquired about buying it! The other ground in Haslingden is St Mary’s which is a good set up. [/quote] Yes now you mention it I heard something about that. There have been attempts to bu...

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Pre-pandemic last time I visited Haslingden. The one at the bottom of the hill from the main road? Or is there an older ground (I seem to remember playing at as a youth…. A lot longer ago. The old Stand Athletic ground. [/quote] You have put my mind at rest, if nothing else. That was the one I reme...

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Steve-Harpers-perm wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:38 pm
Another local ground in a similar state is Haslingden’s at Ewood Bridge.

Pre-pandemic last time I visited Haslingden. The one at the bottom of the hill from the main road? Or is there an older ground (I seem to remember playing at as a youth…. A lot longer ago.

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It's quite some years back but would I be right in saying that Ross Utd chairman also happened to own a development company who eventually threw in the towel....ended up building the houses? Seem to think he was in that business yes. Not sure how the end came but I know he managed to alienate a lot...

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Oops. Dark Lane. The owner at the time just couldn't afford to keep it running. Shame. End of the local Stags There was a lot of politics behind the scenes. Cannot remember the ins and outs but I remember a close family friend was behind a lot of the upgrading of the ground… floodlights, new stands...

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Always amazes me that Bacup survived the nineties when their much more successful and famous neighbours Rossendale United went to the wall. Was up at Dean Lane doing some research last year and the ground which had been left to rot ever since is now a housing estate. It seems a different world to gr...

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Tomatoes - improved heart health, cancer prevention, and protection against sunburn Mushrooms - cancer prevention, soak up excess sodium in the body, reduce cholesterol, brain health, source of Vit D, promotes gut health and general immunity, Pineapple - Highly nutritious, antioxidants may… aid dig...

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Maidstone was one of my most memorable ever away days. We arrived for the fourth division fixture to find only one chippy… The poor south Asian girl unused to the accent exceedingly rare could not understand the lad at the front wanted a chip butty… after a long discussion about words for bread… the...

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:19 pm
I think you’ve got seasons the wrong way round.

Quite possibly.

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Perhaps it is my age but the first one I remember as being talked about as being too good to stay at Burnley for long is Phil Cavanagh

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Hardly - if you’d said the previous season I might have agreed but some good performances in the early part of the season before he left. Don’t remember an upturn in form, but I’m certainly not going to argue. I remember being a little surprised by the timing but unsurprised (apart from him being a...

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Strangely you’ve got a lot of time for murderers too. Do I ? Or do I have a lot of time for justice. As someone with mental disability who has been in and out of work all my life due to ‘not applying myself’ for 52 years only to find out I had been repeatedly let down by those who were supposed to ...

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From what i remember his Bristol City were basically a wide open gung ho type side. He was massively adaptable with us, he had success with Robbie Blake as a lone striker, Akinbiyi and Andy Gray, all completely different styles. His name has a negative reputation alongside it, im not really sure wh...

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Goliath wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:56 pm
It baffles me that hes down in the lower leagues. Championship clubs could do worse.

Not really on trend with his style of play.

I can see SC becoming a firefighter choice for clubs needing to turn results though, especially if he can turn FGR around.

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I would be amazed if he ever hinted it Really? I have read several comments at least attributed to him, including that he followed our progress last season. As I say I have no all seeing eye to either confirm or deny your opinion, but see no need to rubbish our ‘Royal support’ as it has zero effect...

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To me he's just a fellow human being living on this planet of ours. And of course I wouldn't expect him to have been recovering on the bed next to mine. It just doesn't seem right. No it doesn’t. Maybe that is exactly the point he was making when splitting with the tradition of the Royal family bei...

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I had to have prostate surgery in December 2023. It took me many months of being on the waiting list and me having to chase and chase to get it done when I did. I found it very stressful not knowing when my operation would be and then of course if it would be cancelled possibly at the last minute. ...

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:29 am
Takes a special kind of rube to believe he's a Burnley fan in any meaningful way.

Another all seeing eye… where do members of this board get them from….. where do I get one?
I could really use one of those.

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Probably decided he cannot cope with another year of the Premier League’s version of VAR

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It's a nonsense story. If we're even close to a situation where this is required then we've all got much bigger problems to worry about. Although we probably won't have that long to worry about them. …. Because Britain has never been caught rubbishing warnings of impending World Wars, and ignored t...

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clansman wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:44 pm
To be fair the Venky’s are truly clueless and if they owned Burnley we would do anything to get them out of our club.

There was much the same feeling about Bob Lord. That went well.

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:19 pm
It's one thing that JJ cannot be accused of tbh.

He's doing a splendid job - love him referencing Jimmy Mc..

We should definitely do more to market our history and awareness of some of our club legends!

Putting up murals to past greats perhaps

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Losses and debts are OK as long as they are sustainable. When Venkys stop pumping in the money... its bye bye. They can sell Wharton, £18m in the bank... where does that money go... back into the team's development or paying off debts? They'll have to hope for another Wharton to come through the ra...

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Probably worth you reading some Nozick, Hayek and Hoppe. From my (admittedly sparse knowledge) of these theories they are built from a premise similar to that employed by Paine, Marx and many others since the mid eighteenth century onward. Sadly they tend not to concentrate on the abuse such models...

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Switzerland Avoided the last war by being the world’s ask no questions bankers and no threat to ambition. The same policy used in this country has only exacerbated the problem… Britain is not a neutral power. Although it was dragged kicking and screaming into a democracy by revolts in America and F...

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The ones who are easily deceived are the more liberal in society. They fall for establishment propaganda all the time. Real people who have had to look after themselves/and family and who work in uncensored ( ordinary) environments and socialise in normal places with normal people. For example a st...

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I expected the many interesting posts from people giving their views on conscription, and I think it is silly that there are also posts which treat this as a genuine suggestion/possibility. I thought I had been pretty clear about it. I think you need to look around at what is happening in the world...

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There's massive losses and then massive losses though, isn't there? The amount Venky's are plugging into Rovers is obscene. It has certainly upset the Indian government. Bless them they live on a cloud… the Everton fiasco has obviously gone unnoticed by our neighbours. It will likely get far worse ...

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It's a fair point, but the first choice I would lean towards when considering how to protect my family would be getting us all out of the country. Preferably somewhere warm and safe, but would take anywhere safe. Good luck finding somewhere safe when the East, far East and Africa unite against the ...

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I'd assume considering this PC, inclusive World we now live in that fighting age females will also be called up and required to fight? I think you are being optimistic assuming there will be a fighting age, let alone questioning if women will be expected to be ready to fight. It is pretty certain u...

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The comments that initiated this debate seems to be by a soon to be retired army General: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/24/army-chief-says-people-of-uk-are-prewar-generation-who-must-be-ready-to-fight-russia https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-mandatory-...

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The rise in dictatorships - China, Russia, North Korea - across the globe is worrying to say the least. You have to wonder why Americans would vote another one in this November after the carnage he caused last time. America has history: protectionism has been a vote winner in the states. The island...

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I think most of our signings have been a punt,unless your signing proven quality it’s nearly always gamble ,fortunately last season the majority came off ,this time it hasn’t worked out for a lot of them up to now ,but if we keep most of the squad for next season even though I don’t think it will b...

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Yeah. So my point is, if someone was to use yank as a derogatory slur towards American people then it could be considered as bigoted, despite the word ‘yank’ not itself being considered offensive. Totally agree. It may seem semantic, even pedantic but when someone is accusing another of something -...

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Didn’t the North describe themselves as “Yankees” during the civil war? I could understand some from the southern states taking offence at the term if so. The main reason it isn’t a racial slur is that Americans are not / have never been a homogenous race (given the term is never used to mean “Nati...

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Rileybobs wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 23, 2024 8:55 pm
American isn't a race, but I suppose any term used in a derogatory way against a race of people could be classed as racist.

That is why we have the word Bigoted… when it is not racism.

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I didn’t miss it. Those posters were wrong, that’s all. Quite agree. Yank is derived from the native pronunciation of English, Yanglish… Yank and has been used by American’s to describe themselves since at least the later eighteenth century I can see those from the Southern states being more offend...

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He’s winding up B@stards fans no end which can only be a good thing. Though personally I think he’s burnt every bridge he ever had and is acting like a manic depressive on a “ high “ it doesn’t stop it being quite amusing witnessing both his very public mental breakdown while winding up the permane...

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